HENDERSON, Nev. – If you’re curious as to whom the top vote getter might be for the 2009-10 Best in the West basketball team could be, you should have been in the gymnasium at the Henderson International School Wednesday afternoon.

With 20-plus major college head coaches looking on – including UCLA’s Ben Howland, Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, Washington’s Lorenzo Romar and Jamie Dixon of Pittsburgh – Terrence Jones put up a pretty good argument as to why he could be the No.1 prospect out west next season.

The 6-foot-8 left hander helped lead the Portland-based I-5 team to a 103-43 victory over the North Carolina’s D-One team during Grassroots Basketball Organization of America’s Challenge of Champions.

Three national traveling team tournaments also got underway in and about Las Vegas Wednesday morning.

A fourth tourney, sponsored by Reebok and headquartered at Foothill High in Henderson, gets under way this morning. All four wrap up on Sunday.

I-5 – which was the club UCLA freshman Mike Moser played for last year – played the program that was led by Kentucky freshman John Wall last year.

This version of the team includes J.T. Terrell of Raleigh, N.C., an extraordinary jump shooter who is committed to Wake Forest, as well as 6-8 Quincy Miller, a junior from Raleigh who is rated among the top 20 prospects in the national class of 2011.

Jones, however, dominated the proceedings at both ends of the floor in just about every fashion conceivable.

He swatted shots twice in eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations with Miller down low, grabbed rebounds and scored 23 points, operating just as effectively from the 3-point arc as he did in the low post.

The aspect of his performance that was most impressive, though, was his ball-handling and passing ability – which are of the caliber that he’ll probably be a point forward in the mold of a Lamar Odom or Scotty Pippen in college.

Washington, Arizona, Oklahoma, Florida, Connecticut and Maryland are among those, apparently, in the hunt for his services.

Faces in the crowd

The most impressive turnout of head coaches showed up in the early evening for a game pitting Memphis Magic and Seattle Rotary Select.

The Seattle club is led by 6-8 Josh Smith (Kentwood High in Kent, Wash.), who is expected to choose between UCLA and Washington, and 6-4 Tony Wroten (Seattle Garfield), one of the 10 best juniors in the country.

Memphis has a couple of Top 10-caliber seniors in guards Joe Jackson (Memphis White Station) and Jalen Kendrick (College Park, Ga., West Lake).

Local report

Among the Southern California-based teams in action at the GBOA C of C, Inland (players from San Bernardino and Riverside Counties) was knocked off by Chicago Full Package, 69-36; Team Odom of Los Angeles lost to the New Jersey Playaz, 78-61, the California Supreme/Black squad beat the New York Panthers (on a 3-pointer by Serra’s Keith Shamburger, 77-76), the California Supreme/Red team pulled away against D.C. Assault, 102-94, and the Indianapolis SYF team bounced the Compton Magic/Black, 53-43.

Some of the day’s other standouts included Keala King of California Supreme/Red (the San Gabriel Valley League’s MVP for Dominguez last season but plans to transfer to Mater Dei) and Bryce Jones of Compton Magic/Black (and Taft High).